<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Times New Roman, serif">[with apologies for the cross-posting]</font></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Call for Papers: Replication, Collaboration, and Best Practices in Infancy Research</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><b>Infant Behavior and Development</b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Guest Editor: Michael C. Frank, </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Stanford University</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">In the last five years, issues of replicability and reproducibility have come to the forefront in the social sciences. In psychology especially, a growing body of evidence suggests that limited sample sizes, flexible analytic strategies, and a lack of pre-specified study expectations have all contributed to a lower-than-ideal rate of replication. Although these issues are likely exacerbated by the difficulties of working with young participants, they have been discussed much less in developmental psychology than in other subfields. As result, models of best practices are limited.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">For this special issue, we seek contributions documenting efforts to develop and apply best practices for researchers working with infants. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Topics may include but are not limited to:</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 22.5pt;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border-width:medium;border-style:none;border-color:currentcolor"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols"">●<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Empirical studies with infants (up to 3 years old) that are examples of collaborative data collection across labs to increase the quality of developmental science. In these empirical papers, we encourage authors to discuss insights arising from the process of cross-lab coordination.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 22.5pt;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border-width:medium;border-style:none;border-color:currentcolor"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols"">●<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Replication studies</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> that model the principles of reproducible science</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> and explore infant development in areas such as language and cognitive development, emotional development, perception, perception-action coupling, motor development, and socialization.</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt 22.5pt;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;border-width:medium;border-style:none;border-color:currentcolor"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:"Noto Sans Symbols"">●<span style="font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"Times New Roman"">      </span></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Methods papers exploring statistical analyses or innovations in lab protocols, for example highlighting new methods for increasing measurement accuracy or decreasing experimenter bias.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We hope that all submissions will also model best practices in openness and transparency (e.g., sharing materials, code, and data wherever possible).</span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(80,80,80)">Manuscripts should be submitted between <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">February 1, 2018 and April 1, 2018</span></span>.</span></p><p><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(80,80,80)">Manuscripts should be submitted to the journal online via EVISE. Please submit the original source files, not PDF files. Please read “Guide for Authors” available at </span><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/infant-behavior-and-development/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">https://www.journals.elsevier.<wbr>com/infant-behavior-and-<wbr>development/</span></a></span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(80,80,80)">. Select special issue option "SI: </span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black">Replication/Best Practices</span><span lang="EN-GB" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:rgb(80,80,80)">" when submitting the article to EVISE.</span></p><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">If in doubt about the appropriateness of submissions, contributors should contact Guest Editor, Michael Frank, at </span><a href="mailto:mcfrank@stanford.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">mcfrank@stanford.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">.</span><span class="gmail-HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><span style="font-size:12.8px"></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.8px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p><div><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></div></font></span>
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